Jean-Marie Massou

 
Jean-Marie Massou (1950-2020) was a figure of "art brut", defined in its strictest sense, who lived for 45 years in the forest of Marminiac in the Lot (France). In the 1970s, a mother refused to allow her son, a psychotic, illiterate and lonely young man, to be institutionalized. She offered him a forest of chestnut trees. There, Jean-Marie Massou will create, alone, a staggering world-work: hundreds of recorded cassettes, thousands of engraved stones, tons of rubble moved to dig kilometers of underground galleries, wells, an abyss, a pyramid, as traces of his universal mission. Massou, found lifeless on the ground in his house in the middle of the woods on May 28, 2020, at the age of 70, had been the subject of a remarkable documentary directed by the artist Antoine Boutet in 2009.
 
Jean-Marie Massou - Sodorome - Volume III – Les Romans de Massou (vinyl LP)
2024
La Belle Brute
forthcoming
La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.
Jean-Marie Massou - La Citerne de Coulanges (CD)
2022
La Belle Brute
currently out of stock
Jean-Marie Massou's double album presenting, in a raw way, the recordings made at the end of the 1970s in a giant tank.
Jean-Marie Massou - Sodorome - Volume I (vinyl LP)
2016
La Belle Brute
sold out
First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.
Jean-Marie Massou - Sodorome - Volume I (CD)
2016
La Belle Brute
sold out
First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.


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